Ch.22 pt.1 Flashcards
1919 labor strikes
more than 4 million wage laborers went on strike because employers started cutting wages and rooted out unions
supreme court attitude in the 1920s; adkins case
contradicted the muller v oregon court case by voiding minimum wage for women workers in the district of columbia.
red scare
anticommunist hysteria that swept the united states after WWI and led to a series of govt raids and conflicts over civil liberties
a. mitchell palmer and his famous raids
he started the red scare because of a bomb that had exploded the washington town house.
sacco and vanzetti
painting of sacco and vanzetti laying dead with 3 massachusetts citizens holding lillies for them. they were found guilty and sentences to death.
equal rights amendment
stated that men and women shall have equal rights throughout the united states, this helped women fight gender discrimination .
league of women voters
formed before the 19th amendment to educate americans in responsible citizenship and to win enactment in legislation favorable to women.
teapot dome scandal
bribery incident where the secretary of the interior albert fall was eventually convicted of taking 300k in bribes and became the first cabinet official to be kicked out.
prohibition/ 18th amendment
prohibition of liquor was a major spur because they thought it was unpatriotic to drink beer
scopes trial
, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
national origins act (1924) and 1929
severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
KKK 1920s version
came back targeting immigrants, blacks, catholics, and jews with physical intimidations and economic boycotts.
